David Coppa, 16 May 2016 22:10: > This probably has to do with locale being set in your shell's profile, > but not in your ~/.xinitrc.
spot on. i use XDM, so .xsession not .xinitrc, and while i have: $ head -3 .xsession #!/bin/sh . $HOME/.profile just yesterday night i removed export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" from .profile, because "i have that already in .kshrc, so what's the point" now i know. thanks! -f -- friends are people you can be quiet with.
